Robert Harwell Lee; DeSoto, then Webster Par., Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: Aug. 2001



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===Robert Harwell Lee, 
who was captain in the World war service, is anative of Northwest 
Louisiana, and practiced there for a brief timebefore his military 
experience, and since the war has been one of theleading members of 
the bar f Minden, Webster Parish.He was born at Keatchie, De Soto 
Parish, in 1890, son of J. M. Leeand grandson of the late Dr. J. B. 
Lee, who after a service as asurgeon in the Confederate army settled 
in De Soto Parish andpracticed medicine there with distinction and 
honor for a period ofthirty years.  One of the uncles of captain Lee 
was Judge J. B. Lee, ajudge of the District Court.  Captain Lee's 
mother was EmmaRochell the daughter of the late J. L. Rochell, member 
of the cottoncommission firm of Rugeley, Blair and Rochell of New 
Orleans.Robert Harwell Lee was liberally educated, attending the 
commonschools and the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge.  
Hegraduated with his law degree from the state university in 1914. 
andthen located at Benton, the parish seat of Bossier Parish, and 
had anincreasing business as an attorney until the summer of 1917.
He entered the Second Officer's Training Camp at Leon Springs,Texas, 
August 26, 1917, and received his commission as firstlieutenant 
November 27th.  He was assigned to the Fifty-seventhRegiment of the 
United States Regular Army, being for some timestationed at Brownsville, 
Texas, and in the latter part of December,1917, was ordered to duty 
with his regiment in the oil countryaround Houston, Texas.  In May, 
1918, he was stationed at Camp Logan, at Houston, and on July 11, 1918, 
was promoted to captain. He received his honorable discharge from the 
service at Camp Pike,Arkansas, February 1~ 1919.Soon after leaving the 
army Captain Lee established his home andoffice at Minden, and in 1920 
was elected district attorney for a termof four years of the Second 
Judicial District, made up of Webster andBossier parishes.  Besides 
these official duties he looked after generalpractice as an associate 
of Mr. Coleman Lindsey, state senator forthe same district.Captain Lee 
married Miss Marion Arnold, of Benton, and has onedaughter, Marion.  
He is a Royal Arch Mason, and is a pastcommander of Wiley-Peavy Post 
No. 74 of the American Legion and is a member of the 40 et 8 Society.

A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 195, by Henry E. Chambers. 
Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and
New York, 1925.